√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o... | Vera Brittain | | popular novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o... | Vera Brittain | | Household Medicine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o... | Vera Brittain | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o... | Vera Brittain | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o... | Vera Brittain | George Eliot | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her encouragement even prevailed upon us to read the newspapers, which were then quite unusual adjuncts to teaching i... | Vera Brittain | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'During Preparation one wild autumn evening in St Monica's gymnasium, when the wind shook the unsubstantial walls and ... | Vera Brittain | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Adonais | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Had I realised when I read it that its author was even then portentously engaged in rallying the anti-suffrage forces... | Vera Brittain | Mary Ward | Robert Elsmere | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'To Olive Schreiner's "Woman and Labour" - that "Bible of the Woman's Movement" which sounded to the world of 1911 as ... | Vera Brittain | Olive Schreiner | Woman and Labour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yet when the War broke out, I did not clearly understand what was meant by homosexuality, incest or sodomy, and was p... | Vera Brittain | Oscar Wilde | plays | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'My desultory and totally unorganised reading of George Eliot, Thackeray, Mrs Gaskell, Carlyle, Emerson and Merejkowsk... | Vera Brittain | George Eliot | Romola | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'During the next few weeks I spent a good many troubled, speculative, exciting hours with the little volume clasped in... | Vera Brittain | Olive Schreiner | The Story of an African Farm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In spite of my vague memories of the South African campaigns, Spion Kop and Magersfontein were hardly more real to me... | Vera Brittain | Andrew Lang | Andrew Lang's Fairy Books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Uneasily I recalled a passage from Daniel Deronda that I had read in comfortable detachment the year before:' | Vera Brittain | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Perhaps, I thought, Wordsworth or Browning or Shelley would have some consolation to offer; all through the War poetr... | Vera Brittain | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The spasmodic study of Plato, whose "Apologia" and "Meno" I was reading for Pass Mods., certainly did nothing to disc... | Vera Brittain | Plato | 'Apologia' and 'Meno' | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I flung myself on my bed afterwards and tried to get some comfort from the volume of Wordsworth which had been the de... | Vera Brittain | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By way of compensating him for my heretical indifference to the loveliness of Greek - a loveliness that came back to ... | Vera Brittain | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Together Edward and I looked at "The Times History of the War", picked out a newspaper paragraph stating that the tot... | Vera Brittain | various | The Times History of the War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'To console myself, I concluded, I had been re-reading one of our favourite fragments from W. E. Henley's "Bric-a-Brac": | Vera Brittain | W. E. Henley | Bric-a-Brac | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sometimes when I think ... of the Dream-city, with its grey towers and autumn sunsets, and the little room where sur... | Vera Brittain | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the D'Urbervilles | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'After following the progress of the new Allied expedition to Salonika, and studying with mixed feelings the competiti... | Vera Brittain | | The Times | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Once, in the midst of trying to read a Strindberg play, I felt ghostly fingers gently stirring my hair, and twice mys... | Vera Brittain | Johan August Strindberg | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In my wooden hut, by means of a folding card-table and a remnant of black satin for tablecloth, I made a small shrine... | Vera Brittain | Robert Hugh Benson | Vexilla Regis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although, during those noisy, monotonous weeks, I had at last time to read the newspapers, with their perturbing acco... | Vera Brittain | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'A boy thrust a "Star" into my hand, and, shivering with cold in the hot sunshine, I made myself read it.' | Vera Brittain | | the 'Star' newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The leisurely life on this surgical block left plenty of time for reading the various newspapers sent to me from Engl... | Vera Brittain | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Often, when my incompetent needle refused, as it has always refused throughout my life, to collaborate with my intent... | Vera Brittain | John Masefield | Gallipoli | Print: Serial / periodical, magazines |
| 1900-1945 | 'A verse from Thomas Hardy's "In time of the Breaking of Nations" floated into my mind from the volume of his poems th... | Vera Brittain | Thomas Hardy | In Time of the Breaking of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As the winter grew colder and colder I spent the deep trough of the early hours in a huddled heap beside the stove, d... | Vera Brittain | Gilbert Frankau | The City of Fear | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The magazines, when more demanding than the "Tatler", still belonged to the Conservative variety, such as the weekly ... | Vera Brittain | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Only a short time ago, sitting in the elegant offices of the British Red Cross Society in Grosvenor Crescent, I read ... | Vera Brittain | | Report by the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John | Print: official report |
| 1900-1945 | 'Not long afterwards I was reminded of this conversation by some lines from E. A. Mackintosh's "Cha Till Maccruimein,"... | Vera Brittain | E.A. Mackintosh | Cha Till Maccruimein | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For a day or two after the raid I felt curiously lighthearted; like the hero of Hugh Walpole's "The Dark Forest" - on... | Vera Brittain | Hugh Walpole | The Dark Forest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Still sore and indignant, I happened one day to read some verses by Sir Owen Seaman which I found in a copy of "Punch... | Vera Brittain | Owen Seaman | The Soul of a Nation | Print: Serial / periodical, magazine |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was no better reconciled to staying at home when I read in "The Times" a few weeks after my return that the persist... | Vera Brittain | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'On Sunday morning, June 16th, I opened the "Observer", which appeared to be chiefly concerned with the new offensive ... | Vera Brittain | | The Observer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'There followed a quotation from the correspondent of the Corriere della Sera, who described "the Austrian attack on t... | Vera Brittain | | The Observer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'For years I continued to detest the founder of modern nursing and all that she stood for - a state of mind which pers... | Vera Brittain | Florence Nightingale | Cassandra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Perpetually through my head, interfering with the detached contemplation of Hobbes's "Leviathan" and Mill on "Liberty... | Vera Brittain | Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Are Vinagradoff on "The Growth of the Manor" and J. H. Round on "Scutage" still the authorities for this remote and d... | Vera Brittain | Vinagradoff | The Growth of the Manor | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Staying for a fortnight with Miss Heath Jones in Cornwall - where I read aloud to her a large selection of the works ... | Vera Brittain | George Bernard Shaw | Back to Methuselah | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'But during my convalescence the reading of a newly published selection of internationalist essays, entitled "The Evol... | Vera Brittain | unknown | The Evolution of World Peace | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'John Buchan was there, brisk and unpretentious, and the bluff and cordial Hugh Walpole, over whose new novel, "The Ca... | Vera Brittain | Hugh Walpole | The Cathedral | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But at least, through my work at Oxford and my subsequent reading of F. S. Marvin and Gilbert Murray and H. G. Wells,... | Vera Brittain | F.S. Marvin | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We returned to England to read, in an evening newspaper bought at Folkestone, of the death of Lord Northcliffe, but a... | Vera Brittain | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"The Times" is exciting itself over the surplus women, as revealed by the census - 102 per 1,000, I believe, to be ex... | Vera Brittain | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was at this meeting, where she was one of the speakers, that I first saw Rebecca West, whose novel "The Judge", wh... | Vera Brittain | Rebecca West | The Judge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yesterday I read bits of Barbellion, whose life seemd to be filled, like mine, with rejected manuscripts.' | Vera Brittain | W.N.P. Barbellion | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My first vague realisation that poverty was the result of humanity's incompetence, and not an inviolable law of natur... | Vera Brittain | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'So I turned, as often, for help and advice to Mrs.Gaskell's "Life of Charlotte Bronte", which Winifred and I had read... | Vera Brittain | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In a short vignette called "Harking Back to Long Ago", Winifred describes how she and Grace, aged four and six and a ... | Vera Brittain | Winifred Holtby | Harking Back to Long Ago | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just after leaving school, I had been plunged into the same tumult of agonised inquiry by reading Mrs. Humphry Ward's... | Vera Brittain | Mary Ward | Robert Elsmere | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'During my schooldays, which coincided with the dramatic climax of the suffrage movement, I had read Olive Schreiner a... | Vera Brittain | Olive Schreiner | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'But it was in a "Good Housekeeping" article on "How to Enjoy Bad Health" that she quoted the remarks with which he pr... | Vera Brittain | Winifred Holtby | Good Housekeeping magazine "How to Enjoy Bad Health" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I stayed behind in the waiting-room, reading a favourable review in "Punch" of Phyllis Bentley's newly published nove... | Vera Brittain | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In some respects this little work of criticism is the profoundest of Winifred's books.' | Vera Brittain | Winifred Holtby | Virginia Woolf | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shortly after we arrived, a writer in "Harper's Magazine" inquired, "Is this a Christian land?" and went on to commen... | Vera Brittain | | Harper's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'But in "Current History" for September, Bruce Bliven, an editor of "The New Statesman", ventured upon a prophecy: "An... | Vera Brittain | Bruce Bliven | Current History | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'November brought a peculiar police-court case, which made literary history, after Radclyffe Hall's novel, "The Well o... | Vera Brittain | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Winston Churchill had been Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Baldwin Government of 1924, which now, after five years... | Vera Brittain | Winston Churchill | The Gathering Storm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had hesitated, knowing that "The New Statesman" and "The Week-end Review" regarded each other as rivals; two days l... | Vera Brittain | Storm Jameson | No Time Like the Present | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In puzzled words Raymond Gram Swing commented in "Harper's Magazine" on "the complete refusal of the British public t... | Vera Brittain | Raymond Swing | Harper's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Not until I read the fictitious account of this consultation four years afterwards in "South Riding" did I realise th... | Vera Brittain | Winifred Holtby | South Riding | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Phyliis's novel, "Inheritance", had become the fiction-star of that spring.' | Vera Brittain | Phyllis Bentley | Inheritance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After reading these books, I began to ask: "Why should these young men have the war to themselves? Didn't women have... | Vera Brittain | | [books on war topics] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My diary for October 5th, 1932, recorded the impression made upon me by the writer whose "Modern Utopia" had been a b... | Vera Brittain | Herbert George Wells | Modern Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As he left Frankfort the passengers in the train were discussing the break-up of the Disarmament Conference, and in L... | Vera Brittain | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"We face a choice of evils," H. N. Brailsford had written in "The New Clarion" after the break-up of the Disarmament ... | Vera Brittain | H. N. Brailsford | The New Clarion | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shortly afterwards Victor Gollancz issued a pamphlet, entitled "Fascists at Olympia", which contained statements from... | Vera Brittain | anon | Fascists at Olympia | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Only recently I discovered its origin in Longfellow's "New England Tragedies", read and re-read during my childhood w... | Vera Brittain | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | New England Tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the time of her death I had read only part of "South Riding", which was to bring her back to me, and I found no re... | Vera Brittain | Winifred Holtby | South Riding | Print: typescript |
| 1900-1945 | 'They could no more accept it than they or any other powerful nation had ever accepted the teaching of his Master and ... | Vera Brittain | Herbert George Wells | The Outline of History | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Whether this contains evidence of any particular reading experience is unclear]
'Presumably these writers had neve... | Vera Brittain | Julien Benda | La Trahison des Clercs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Under the caption "Pacifist Beats Churchill in Glasgow U. Election", it told me that on the previous day Dick Sheppar... | Vera Brittain | | Article entitled "Pacifist Beats Churchill in Glasgow U. Election", in the Chicago Sunday Tribune (24 October 1937) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a P.E.N. dinner I sat beside him, and questioned him about the "lighted door" in his novel "Guy and Pauline".' | Vera Brittain | Compton Mackenzie | Guy and Pauline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Years afterwards, I was to discover the "Declaration of the Independence of the Mind" issued to his fellow brain-work... | Vera Brittain | Romain Rolland | Declaration of the Independence of the Mind | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the "Sunday Times" for September 12th, a letter of protest from Dame Marie Tempest had coincided with another from... | Vera Brittain | Marie Tempest | [letter published in the "Sunday "Times"] | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the "Sunday Times" for September 12th, a letter of protest from Dame Marie Tempest had coincided with another from... | Vera Brittain | Marie Tempest | [Letter published in the "Sunday Times"] | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In a lecture at Friends' House he spoke of a new Blitzkrieg timed to start on May 1st, and designed to overthrow Engl... | Vera Brittain | Oswald Garrison Villard | Inside Germany | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Main page reviews in the "Observer", "Reynolds News" and the "Sunday Chronicle", and a warm tribute in the "Yorkshire... | Vera Brittain | | Reviews in the "Observer," "Reynold's News," "Sunday Chronicle," "Yorkshire Post" and "TLS." | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'That night three calls from newspaper offices were put through to my bedroom; next morning the front page of "Il Seco... | Vera Brittain | | Il Secolo | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Later I sent my mother a clipping from the Louisville "Courier-Journal", whose woman reporter had been present.' | Vera Brittain | | Courier-Journal | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Among 200 reviews and notices, another clipping from the "Yorkshire Post" remarked on the astonishing persistence wit... | Vera Brittain | | Yorkshire Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Into my mind flashed the "New York Times" headlines which I had read over breakfast that morning.' | Vera Brittain | | New York Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'In a 'Yorkshire Post' article he subsequently described his three days on Willkie's campaign train, with its eleven c... | Vera Brittain | | Yorkshire Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Two days afterwards I wrote to Clare during an air raid, enclosing a paragraph about her parents from the "Star Man's... | Vera Brittain | | "Star Man's Diary" | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'She preferred to say - in words written ten years ago at the end of "The Waves" which might stand for her epitaph - "... | Vera Brittain | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had not known Thornton Wilder, though I had been among the thousands who read "The Bridge of San Luis Rey".' | Vera Brittain | Thornton Wilder | Bridge of San Luis Rey, The | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '"It is an hard matter," wrote John Bunyan in "The Pilgrim's Progress", "to go down into the Valley of Humiliation."' | Vera Brittain | John Bunyan | The Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the "Evening Standard", Major-General Fuller commented acidly that the gigantic forces being raised in America sug... | Vera Brittain | John Frederick Charles Fuller | article in the "Evening Standard" | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '"The censorship here is so close that I depend for most of my information upon "Time" and "Life"," I wrote to New Yor... | Vera Brittain | | "Time" Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The weary Press caustically reported a current quip: "Good news at last! Two of our generals were captured at Tobruk... | Vera Brittain | Nathaniel Gubbins | comment in the "Sunday Express" | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'According to R.C.K. Ensor's "Miniature History of the War", "the annihilating raid on Lubeck...and the raid of 1,130 ... | Vera Brittain | Robert Charles Kirkwood Ensor | Miniature History of the War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His books, "On Two Fronts" and "Letters of a Prisoner", described those early experiences.' | Vera Brittain | Corder Catchpool | On Two Fronts: Letters of a Prisoner. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Here I read the three-year-old newspapers which described the unusual murder trial, and studied a "background" book, ... | Vera Brittain | Emanuel Miller | The Neuroses in War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the end of October, a paragraph by the "Daily Mail" Correspondent in Lisbon "revealed" the peril which she and her... | Vera Brittain | | [Report in the "Daily Mail"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The "New Statesman" described the exponents of this policy as "Bitterenders"; their high priest was Lord Vansittart, ... | Vera Brittain | | New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In a post-war record entitled "Bomber Offensive", Sir Arthur Harris himself described the ordeal of Hamburg, which ca... | Vera Brittain | Arthur Harris | Bomber Offensive | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"...Women were wandering about half-crazy," stated an account in the Swiss newspaper, "National-Zeitung", and a stoke... | Vera Brittain | | National-Zeitung | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'By 1944 Lord Lang, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, was supporting the persistent protests of the Bishop of Chich... | Vera Brittain | | Evening Standard | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'That autumn a friend sent me a booklet entitled "The Bases of Civilisation", by Dr. G. S. Spinks, one-time editor of ... | Vera Brittain | G. S. Spinks | The Bases of Civilisation | Print: Booklet |
| 1900-1945 | 'These included excerpts from the "News Chronicle" and "Manchester Guardian", which reported that a so-called "article... | Vera Brittain | | Manchester Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'My first real understanding of the "terrific sensation" came from an article published in the "Sunday Chronicle" on M... | Vera Brittain | Dorothy Thompson | [article in the "Sunday Chronicle"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'About the same time a correspondent sent me a copy of "Human Events", issued weekly from Washington by Dr. Felix Morl... | Vera Brittain | | Human Events | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1943, soon after Britain adopted "obliteration" as a policy, an article in the "Times" reported that "the German h... | Vera Brittain | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'From the United States Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, inspired by the same thought, sent me an article called "Last Ple... | Vera Brittain | Oswald Garrison Villard | Last Plea for Europe | Print: article published in a periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'During the second week of the battle, a Letter reader sent me from that day's Evening News a clipping which contained... | Vera Brittain | | Evening News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Coming up to London on the morning of September 8th, I read with the same happiness as my neighbours a "Daily Express... | Vera Brittain | | Daily Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'On May 5th the U.S. Forces' newspaper, "The Stars and Stripes", quoted a description by British war prisoners of this... | Vera Brittain | | The Stars and Stripes | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'A letter in the "Jewish Chronicle" subsequently assailed Victor for publishing and commending "Above All Nations".' | Vera Brittain | | Jewish Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Within the next few days I read a new Gollancz pamphlet, "What Buchenwald Really Means". | Vera Brittain | Victor Gollancz | What Buchenwald Really Means | |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the "Left News" for July, 1944, Victor had also published a document from Underground France on the future of Germ... | Vera Brittain | Victor Gollancz | article in the "Left News" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the "Left News" for July, 1944, Victor had also published a document from Underground France on the future of Germ... | Vera Brittain | Victor Gollancz | Article in the "Left News" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'They could all, I thought, have been summed up by the glum description of barbarism in the book called "Leviathan" by... | Vera Brittain | Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | On March 14th the "News Chronicle's" correspondent, S. L. Solon, had called Cologne "End-of-the-World City".' | Vera Brittain | S. L. Solon | Article in the "News Chronicle" | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'To the "Evening Standard" Anne Matheson had contributed a later and similar description of Nuremberg.' | Vera Brittain | Anne Matheson | Article in the "Evening Standard" | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even George Orwell, who had dismissed "Seed of Chaos" with contempt the previous year, now expressed deep misgivings ... | Vera Brittain | George Orwell | Article in "The Observer" | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'But the real clue had been given by Howard Spring in an unpretentious article which appeared in "St. Martin's Review"... | Vera Brittain | Howard Spring | Article in "St Martin's Review" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'More stimulating was the reading of Somerset Maugham's short novel, "A Christmas Holiday".' | Vera Brittain | Somerset Maugham | A Christmas Holiday | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I recalled Ruskin's words in the Preface to "Sesame and Lilies": "Let heart-sickness pass beyond a certain point and ... | Vera Brittain | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Several Norwegians spoke critically to me of John Steinbeck's recent novel, "The Moon is Down".' | Vera Brittain | John Steinbeck | The Moon is Down | Print: Book |